Author Name: Walter, Jakob (Ed) ; Raeff, Marc (Intro)
Title: The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: NY Doubleday 1991
ISBN Number: 0385416962 / 9780385416962
Seller ID: 15795
173 pages; Fine/Fine. Illustrated. Attractive red cloth on beige boards with silver lettering and illustration. Ivory endpapers. Boards are are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is also Fine! In protective sleeve. An excellent gift! Though there are numerus surviving accounts of the Napoleoic Wars written by officers. Walter's is the only known memoir by a draftee, and as such is a unique and fascinating document - a compelling chronicle of a young soldier's loss of innocence as well as a moving portrait of the profound effects of war on the men who fight it. Illustration Credits listed on three pages.
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